Re: SR slaves and .pgpass

Tom Lane wrote:
> Why don't we improve the code, instead?  In particular make
> libpqrcv_connect() do
>
> -	snprintf(conninfo_repl, sizeof(conninfo_repl), "%s replication=true", conninfo);
> +	snprintf(conninfo_repl, sizeof(conninfo_repl), "%s database=replication replication=true", conninfo);
>
> I don't think it's unlikely that someone would try to enter a
> replication-specific password into ~/.pgpass.
>
> 			
>   

+1. It's highly likely - that's how we got here in the first place. It 
seems to me like a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

cheers

andrew